88 Dr. schott e’s Defer iption of a 
ufed in common ulcers. It was filled up from the bottom with 
lint ; a pledget of bafilicum was put over it, and the edges 
were now and then touched with blue vitriol. By thofe means 
granulations began to fhoot from all Tides, the fore filed up 
gradually, and a cicatrix was formed. He had had fmaller ulcers 
of this kind in other parts of the ferotum before this time, 
which, Mr. bishopp told me, he had treated with the fame 
iuccefs. 
The man was rather thin than fat, and might.be about fifty 
years old. He himfelf, like mod: blacks, did not know his 
age ; and if he had pretended to know it, I might, perhaps, 
not have believed him : for as old age is much refpected among 
thofe people, they are very apt, when they are once paffed 
fifty, and have grey hair, to call themfelves older than they 
really are, in order to command refpe<ff. His abdomen feemed 
rather empty, and appeared drawn in towards the fpine ; yet I 
do not think, that any of the inteflines had defeended into the 
ferotum, or if any had paffed down, the annuli of the abdo- 
men muff have been fo dilated as not to occafion the leaff ob- 
ffruffion in them ; for he never had, to my knowledge, any 
of thofe. complaints or lymptoms which attend ruptures. Be- 
fides this, it is to be obferved, that ruptures are not very com- 
mon among the blacks about Senegal ; indeed I can fay, that 
I never faw one of them. 
Having thus far given an account of what I law myfelf of 
this remarkable difeafe, I Ihall now relate what I have been cre- 
dibly informed of by other, people concerning its beginning and 
progrefs. The man had been purchafed up the river as a Have, 
when he was about the age of puberty, and brought down to 
Senegal, where he was kept as a houfe-fervant by an opulent in- 
habitant. He was for fome years healthy and well ; but 
afterwards 
